1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
Criss Cross |
Daniel Fuchs |
U-I |
Comment: based on the novel by Don Tracy |
1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Scene of the Crime |
Charles Schnee |
MGM |
Comment: based on the story by John Bartlow Martin |
1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
White Heat |
Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts |
Warner Bros. |
Comment: based on the story by Virginia Kellogg |
1950
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Best Play
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Detective Story
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Sidney Kingsley
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1950
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Best Radio Drama
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Murder by Experts
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Robert Arthur, David Kogan
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Mutual Broadcasting System
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1950 |
Best Radio Drama |
Suspense |
unknown |
CBS |
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1950 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Fat Man |
unknown |
ABC |
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1950 |
Best Radio Drama |
This is Your FBI |
unknown |
ABC |
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1950
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Anthony Boucher
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New York Times
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Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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1950 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Elizabeth Bullock |
New York Times |
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1950 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Drexel Drake |
Chicago Tribune |
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1950 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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James Sandoe |
Chicago Sun-Times |
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1950 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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William C. Weber |
Saturday Review of Literature |
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1950
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Special Edgars
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Ellery Queen
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Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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1950
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Special Edgars
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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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John Dickson Carr
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Harper & Row
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1949
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Best First Novel
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The Room Upstairs
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Mildred Davis
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Simon & Schuster
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1949 |
Best First Novel |
Shoot the Works |
Richard Ellington |
Wm. Morrow |
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1949 |
Best First Novel |
Wilders Walk Away |
Herbert Brean |
Wm. Morrow |
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1949
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Best Foreign film
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Quai des Orfevres
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Vog Films
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1949
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Best Motion Picture
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Call Northside 777
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Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced
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1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
Rope |
Arthur Laurents |
Transatlantic |
Comment: based on the play by Patrick Hamilton |
1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
Sorry, Wrong Number |
Lucille Fletcher |
Paramount |
Comment: From her play |
1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Big Clock |
Jonathan Latimer |
Paramount |
Comment: based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing |
1949
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Best Radio Drama
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Inner Sanctum
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John Roeburt
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CBS
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Comment: Himan Brown director/producer
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1949 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Mysterious Traveler |
Robert Arthur, David Kogan |
Mutual Broadcasting System |
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1949
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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James Sandoe
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Chicago Sun-Times
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1949 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Isaac Anderson |
New York Times |
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1949 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Angelica Gibbs |
The New Yorker |
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1949 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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William P. McGivern |
Philadelphia Record |
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Clayton Rawson
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Comment: for launching Clue magazine
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Marie Rodell
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Duell, Sloan & Pearce
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Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Arthur A. Stoughton
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Comment: president of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and custodian of Poe Cottage in Fordham for 26 years
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1949
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Special Edgars
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Peter W. Williams
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Comment: for creating the Edgar bust
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1948
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Best Fact Crime
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Twelve Against the Law
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Edward D. Radin
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Duell, Sloan & Pearce
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1948
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Best First Novel
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The Fabulous Clipjoint
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Fredric Brown
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Dutton
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1948
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Best Motion Picture
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Crossfire
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John Paxton
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RKO
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Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director
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1948
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Best Radio Drama
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Suspense
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William Spier
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CBS
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1948
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Howard Haycraft
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Comment: and author of THE ART OF THE MYSTERY STORY
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1947
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Best First Novel
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The Horizontal Man
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Helen Eustis
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Harper
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1947
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Best Motion Picture
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The Killers
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Anthony Veiller
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Hellinger-Universal
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Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director
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1947
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Best Radio Drama
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The Adventures of Sam Spade
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Jason James, Bob Tallman
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CBS
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Comment: William Spier producer
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1947
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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William C. Weber
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Saturday Review of Literature
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Comment: alias "Judge Lynch"
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1946
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Best First Novel
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Watchful at Night
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Julius Fast
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Rinehart & Co.
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1946
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Best Motion Picture
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Murder, My Sweet
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John Paxton
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RKO
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Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based. Directed by Edward Dymtryk
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1946
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Best Motion Picture
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The House on 92nd St.
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Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr.
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Twentieth Century Fox
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Comment: Honorary Scroll
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1946
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Best Radio Drama
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Ellery Queen
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Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee
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CBS
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Comment: A tie this year with MR. AND MRS. NORTH, Dannay and Lee were the team using the pseudonym "Ellery Queen"
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1946
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Best Radio Drama
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Mr. and Mrs. North
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Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
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NBC
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Comment: A tie this year with ELLERY QUEEN
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1946
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Outstanding Mystery Criticism
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Anthony Boucher
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San Francisco Chronicle
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